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Bully Hill Vineyards is a vineyard and winery located in the Town of Urbana approximately two miles north of the Village of Hammondsport, New York, United States, in the Finger Lakes American Viticultural Area.
The Finger Lakes AVA is an American Viticultural Area located in Upstate New York, south of Lake Ontario. It was established in 1982 [ 4 ] and encompasses the eleven Finger Lakes , but the area around Canandaigua , Keuka , Seneca , and Cayuga Lakes contain the vast majority of vineyard plantings in the AVA.
Sunrise overlooking a vineyard on Canandaigua Lake. The Finger Lakes region is New York's largest wine-producing region. Over 400 wineries and vineyards surround Seneca, Cayuga, Canandaigua, Keuka, Conesus, and Hemlock Lakes. Because of the lakes' great depth, they provide a lake effect to the lush vineyards that flank their shores.
In fact, New York State alone has a long history of wine production and is even home to America’s oldest winery. From Finger Lakes to Cape May to New Haven, there are plenty of gorgeous ...
Hunt Country Vineyards current experimental agricultural techniques include English ground ivy (partly funded by the USDA SARE program, planted under and between rows of grapes to reduce the need for herbicides and mowing), biodiesel from waste grease (to power tractors), along with a small wind turbine for producing electricity, and bat houses to encourage natural insect predators.
The winery planted 100 acres (40.5 ha) of grapes. At the time, it was the largest vineyard in the state. By 1869 they were producing 14,000 US gallons (53,000 L) of Seneca Lake's first commercial wine. Then, in 1882, New York State opened its Agricultural Experiment Station in Geneva, New York located at the north end of Seneca Lake. Its grape ...
This year's Finger Lakes Wine Festival event is being held 51 years after more than 600,000 people filled the track for Summer Jam, a rock festival, held the last weekend of July 1973.
The new owners are about to begin a bright new chapter in the restoration of the building, removing several cinder-block additions of more recent years. Hopefully the beauty of the original structure will again be seen, and the winery, which once was the Most Picturesque Winery will again be celebrated in a new incarnation.